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"But nearly three-fourths of the variation in longevity is accountable to behavioral and metabolic risk factors, including obesity, exercise, smoking, alcohol a

"But nearly three-fourths of the variation in longevity is accountable to behavioral and metabolic risk factors, including obesity, exercise, smoking, alcohol and drug addiction, blood pressure, and diabetes" After searching a bit, it seems like there is a lot of overlay with the obesity maps of the usa here: https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/prevalence-maps.html https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/prevalence-maps.html not as much precision but exercise seems like it could also be a legit factor according to these maps: https://nccd.cdc.gov/dnpao_dtm/rdPage.aspx?rdReport=DNPAO_DTM.ExploreByTopic&islClass=PA&islTopic=PA1&go=GO https://nccd.cdc.gov/dnpao_dtm/rdPage.aspx?rdReport=DNPAO_DT... What would be interesting is to see if there are places where there is perhaps an inverse relationship and figure out what there the offsetting factors are. Does anyone have links for maps of the others by any chance?

flexie 9y ago
To imagine that a 20 year old college kid from Akron Colorado can reasonably expect to outlive most people just born a few hours drive away in South Dakota...
- planteen 9y ago
  Sadly, those low counties in South Dakota line up with reservations.
JBReefer 9y ago
Walkability and density is a giant, giant factor, and no one seems to want change the status quo. Anecdata, but most of the 60+ year olds I know that spent their lives in the suburbs can barely walk, all of the 60+ year olds that live in my city walk faster than I do.
Balgair 9y ago
It would be nice to see these maps in a population adjustment way, like the last map here: http://www.businessinsider.com/2016-election-results-maps-population-adjusted-cartogram-2016-11/#counties-themselves-arent-uniformly-blue-or-red-looking-at-a-color-gradient-using-varying-shades-of-purple-we-can-see-most-counties-had-a-tight-split-between-republican-and-democratic-voters-although-a-few-islands-of-deep-red-and-blue-still-remain-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/2016-election-results-maps-po...

flexie 9y ago

To imagine that a 20 year old college kid from Akron Colorado can reasonably expect to outlive most people just born a few hours drive away in South Dakota...

planteen 9y ago
Sadly, those low counties in South Dakota line up with reservations.

JBReefer 9y ago

Walkability and density is a giant, giant factor, and no one seems to want change the status quo. Anecdata, but most of the 60+ year olds I know that spent their lives in the suburbs can barely walk, all of the 60+ year olds that live in my city walk faster than I do.

Balgair 9y ago

It would be nice to see these maps in a population adjustment way, like the last map here: http://www.businessinsider.com/2016-election-results-maps-population-adjusted-cartogram-2016-11/#counties-themselves-arent-uniformly-blue-or-red-looking-at-a-color-gradient-using-varying-shades-of-purple-we-can-see-most-counties-had-a-tight-split-between-republican-and-democratic-voters-although-a-few-islands-of-deep-red-and-blue-still-remain-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/2016-election-results-maps-po...